Marcel Proust
Quotes
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
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If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
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